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  2. OWNERS MAKE PLANS TO UNLOAD VESSELS

    Representatives of the overseas, interstate and coastal shipping companies met at the rooms of the Australasian Steamship Owners' Federation ...

    Article : 293 words
  3. FEDERAL ACTION TODAY

    Shipowners drew up plans this morning for controlling the services or National Volunteer Workers and work was started ...

    Article : 144 words
  4. NO SIGN OF PEACE YET

    That any peace terms must include the honoring of the Government's pledge to the voluntary workers, was stated today by the ...

    Article : 79 words
  5. PHOSPHATES HANDLED

    Twenty-three volunteers began work this morning in discharging a vessel lying at the Mount Lyell Company's private wharf at Yarraville. The ...

    Article : 215 words
  6. COMPANY HAS GOOD SUPPLY OF COAL FOR ELECTRICITY

    So far the Melbourne Electric Company has received no instructions from the Government in regard to the cutting off of electric supplies. Up till ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. CONFERENCE FAILS

    Industrial peace was not brought nearer by the conference between the New South Wales Cabinet and the Union Defence Committee yesterday. ...

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  8. MERCHANTS CONFIDENT

    Manufacturing grocers have fair supplies of coal. How far they will be permitted to utilise them they could not say today. On the occasion of the ...

    Article : 148 words
  9. COAL COMMANDEERED BY WAR REGULATION

    Passed by the Federal Executive council last night, the new regulations [?]ommandeering coal under the War [?]recautioas Act and reviving the ...

    Article : 362 words
  10. ALL HORSES AND VEHICLES MAY BE USED BY GOVERNMENT

    By an Executive Council order today the Government is empowered to commandeer all horses and horse drawn vehicles. ...

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  11. LUMPERS MARK TIME

    Members of the Melbourne Wharf Laborers' Union are anxiously awaiting the return from Sydney of Messrs. E. Jones (president) and J. Williams ...

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  12. BUTCHERS ANXIOUS

    Anxiety is being felt in regard to the meat supply. There is no actual shortage at present, but with volunteer slaughtermen at the abattoirs and the ...

    Article : 237 words
  13. STEAMER FOR TASMANIA

    With the aid of volunteer workers, it is hoped to re-establish steamer communication with Tasmania tomorrow. ...

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  14. NAVY OFFICE VISITED

    Although it was only announced this morning that the Naval Department was likely to commandeer all coal, applicants for supplies were early at the ...

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  15. PLEDGE TO BE KEPT

    Mr G. W. Fuller, the Acting Premier, declared today that the Government would honor its promises to the volunteers who had come forward. ...

    Article : 347 words
  16. OIL SUPPLIES PLENTIFUL

    Supplies of oil are plentiful. There are stocks on hand sufficient for requirements, even under abnormal conditions, for three or four months. ...

    Article : 185 words
  17. LEADERS DENOUNCED

    "It reflects discredit on the whole of Australia," said Sir Robert Best, M.H.R., speaking at the Town Hall recruiting meeting in the lunch hour ...

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  18. TARCOOLA EXPECTED

    Though it had been published that the steamship Tarcoola, with a cargo of sugar, had boon ordered to Adelaide, the agents for the vessel said ...

    Article : 200 words
  19. TRANSPORTS DELAYED

    Shipowners concerned took strong exception to the remarks made by Mr J. Cadden, vigilance officer of the Wharf Laborers' Union, in a statement ...

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  20. COALING TRANSPORTS

    A start was made this morning with the work of coaling transports by volunteer labor. Arrangements have been made by the ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. SHARE MARKET STEADY

    Up to lunch time today the outstanding feature of the market for shares in the Barrier silver mining companies was steadiness. ...

    Article : 100 words
  22. STATE MINE IDLE

    No official intimation of a strike had seen received by Mr G. M'Leish, mine manager of the State Coal Mine, this morning. But he was aware that the ...

    Article : 98 words
  23. PRICE OF SUGAR STANDS

    Replying to a question this afternoon, Mr W. M. Hughes, the Prime Minister, said it was not intended by the Federal Government to allow any increase in ...

    Article : 87 words
  24. FARMERS IN CAMP

    There are now 2500 country volunteers in camp on the Sydney Cricket Ground. The various industries at which the ...

    Article : 113 words
  25. OTHER COLLIERIES AFFECTED

    There was a long meeting of the diners' Union this morning, but the officials declined to make any statement as to its result. ...

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  26. RECRUITING TRAIN PASSED

    A recruiting train from the north brought 92 enlisted men to Sydney yesterday. At first, the train to take the recruiting party from West ...

    Article : 59 words
  27. NO PUBLIC MEETING

    So far no action in the direction of calling a public meeting of citizens to strengthen the hands of the Government in the present crisis has been ...

    Article : 55 words
  28. IN VICTORIA DOCK

    In Victoria Dock this morning the work of loading an overseas steamship was begun by volunteer labor. The cargo consisted principally of wool and ...

    Article : 120 words
  29. THE SHIRKER RELIEVED

    TWO OF A KIND: THANK HEAVEN, SOMEBODY'S HELPING US IN RUSSIA Ben Strange's cartoons in "The Western Mail," Perth, have the merit of directness, and the drawing in the War Page of "The ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  30. MINERS MEET

    At an aggregate meeting of miners held in Kitchener Hall, Adamstown, this, morning, it was announced that a policy had boon drafted by the Coal ...

    Article : 77 words
  31. MINERS' DECISION NOT KNOWN

    Up to a late this afternoon the railway Commissioners had not been [?]formed of the result of the meeting of mines which was to have been ...

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  32. MEN TO CAMP AT ZOO

    Volunteer workers engaged in waterside work will soon he encamped on the new Zoological Gardens at Taronga Park, which have been taken over by ...

    Article : 175 words
  33. TIMBER YARD HANDS CEASE

    Members of the Sawmill and Timber Yards Employes' Union ceased work at all mills and yards in the city and suburbs this morning. ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. VOLUNTEERS ENROL

    Volunteer labor has again been flocking to enrol in the National Service day. Over 500 letters of application arrived ...

    Article : 449 words
  35. EXTRA TRAIN TO BROOKLYN

    Daily 200 additional workmen are despatched from Spencer street to Brooklyn, and the Railway Department has put on an extra train to ...

    Article : 72 words
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